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Tests on a runaway Toyota Prius car in California have been unable to replicate the uncontrollable acceleration reported by its driver.

Arnold Schwarzenegger are facing off in their first debate Monday. State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman will tangle in Costa Mesa in an hour-long event sponsored by a local Republican group.

Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan has helped only about 16 percent of borrowers who signed up since its launch last year, while hundreds of thousands of homeowners remain in limbo.

Corey Haim 's death just crossed the county line. A prescription for the painkiller OxyContin made out to the actor was found during the course of an ongoing investigation into the purchase of bogus prescription pads from a San Diego vendor by people using stolen doctors' identities, California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Friday.

Authorities say five people were wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex in Southern California.

The two Republican candidates for governor yesterday promised to make public their tax returns as they challenged each other's loyalty to the Republican Party.

Federal and company investigators probing a dramatic high-speed incident on a California freeway involving a Toyota Prius didn't find as much wear as they expected on its brakes, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

With the state's higher education system in crisis, more California students are vying for admission at out-of-state universities, applying for seats at campuses from the hills of upstate New York to the snowy flatlands of Ohio to the deserts of Arizona.

UPDATE : Attorney Harry Kresky just issued this statement about Judge Sumner's ruling this afternoon on Prop 14.

A California prosecutor has filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the Japanese motoring giant of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers.

A convicted child molester remains in a California prison instead of being out on parole thanks to new, last-minute federal charges.

A Los Angeles woman who spent 23 years in prison after being convicted of setting a fatal 1985 fire in the Garment District was expected to be released from prison in the next few days, with Gov.

Despite having once laughed at the notion of running for California lieutenant governor, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom confirmed Friday that hea s jumping into the race for the statea s No. 2 spot.

Mr. Newsom, who surprised many when he ended a gubernatorial bid last October, announced his candidacy in an early morning TV interview, ending weeks of speculation that he would enter the race for lieutenant governor.

a oeIf you told me two months ago wea d be sitting down having this conversation, I would say, a no way.a But enough people came to me and made a case for this office,a Newsom told CBS 5.

The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young friends.George Joseph England, 65, remained imprisoned instead of being ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a review of the way the state handled a molestation case involving a man who is now charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing.

California residents who sell their homes in "short sales" would avoid a tax bite under a bill approved by the state Legislature.

Targeting California's bitter budget fights, Democratic legislative leaders proposed a wide-ranging overhaul Thursday that would allow lawmakers to pass budgets by a simple-majority vote and would require them to forfeit pay if they are late in passing a spending plan.

Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.

A member of the pop group Girlicious has been charged in California with drug possession with the intent to sell after Glendale police allegedly found a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse.